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A rare look into Nicaragua, a country that shuts itself off to journalists

By Ayesha Rascoe,
Eyder Peralta
Published September 10, 2023 at 6:02 AM MDT
A couple in a motorcycle ride in front of a billboard with a picture of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega at Ministry of Family Economy in Managua, Nicaragua.
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A couple in a motorcycle ride in front of a billboard with a picture of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega at Ministry of Family Economy in Managua, Nicaragua.

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Ayesha Rascoe
Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast.
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Eyder Peralta
Eyder Peralta is NPR's East Africa correspondent based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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